Morning Briefing: Patriot Front Spreads White Nationalist Propaganda From Washington to New Hampshire

Morning Briefing: Patriot Front, the neo-fascist White Nationalist group, has targeted communities around the country with White Nationalist propaganda. The group has also increasing used antisemitic messaging, in response to the Israel-Hamas war. The group claims that network of chapters are “rapidly expanding across the country,” and multiple network chapters hosted gatherings during the Thanksgiving holidays.

In addition to spreading propaganda in the former of placing stickers or spray-painting stencils in public areas, the group also conducted “training” sessions at undisclosed locations in Corona, California; Boston, Massachusetts; Grand Forks, North Dakota; and in Yellowstone National Park in Montana. These “trainings” are increasingly resembling the activities of the Active Club Network and the Rise Above Movement — signaling an increasing focus on extremist violence.

In recent weeks, members of Patriot Front distributed propaganda in several communities including Birmingham, Chelsea, Homewood, Mobile, and Trussville, Alabama; Norco, California; Denver, Colorado; Atlanta, Georgia; Bay City, Midland, and South Lyon, Michigan; Crystal Springs, Meridian, and Starkville, Mississippi; Camdenton and St. Louis, Missouri; Londonderry and Manchester, New Hampshire; Asheville, North Carolina; Fargo, North Dakota; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Bountiful, Utah; Alexandria and Fredericksburg, Virginia; and Liberty Lake, and Yakima, Washington.

Patriot Front propaganda was recently reportedly found on the campus of Purdue University, and the “incident appears to be a part of a sporadic pattern of similar stickers going up around campus.” The group has strategically targeted college campuses for spreading propaganda and recruitment of new members, and members recently distributed flyers outside of an event sponsored by the right-wing group Turning Point USA on the campus of Missouri State University.

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Extremist Links: Far Right Violent Extremists Face Legal Consequences in Courtrooms

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Morning Briefing: Patriot Front Spreads Propaganda While Facing Lawsuit

Morning Briefing: In Winsted, Connecticut, local law enforcement are “investigating after white supremacy signs were found posted in downtown,” and the signs were reportedly propaganda from Patriot Front, the neo-fascist White Nationalist group.

Patriot Front was also reportedly responsible for White Supremacists propaganda “posted outside two Black-owned businesses on Martha's Vineyard,” and the signs, “some of which read Strong Families, Strong Nations and America First, were initially found on utility poles.”

A pair of civil rights organizations recently filed a lawsuit against Patriot Front, “alleging that it committed racial intimidation by defacing businesses and public property around the city of Fargo with the group’s logo and other graffiti.”

Local law enforcement in multiple counties in Florida, including Volusia, Okeechobee, Palm Beach, Orange, and Brevard, are reportedly “investigating packets of antisemitic flyers that members of a hate group left in residential neighborhoods overnight.”

Robert Wilson, a neo-Nazi formerly based in San Diego County, has reportedly “been extradited to the Netherlands to face hate speech charges in connection with an antisemitic incident that took place at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam earlier this year.”

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Extremists Links: Neo-Nazi White Supremacists Fantasy of 'Ethnostate' in New England

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Morning Briefing: Buffalo Mass Shooter Plagiarized 'Manifesto,' Antisemitism Associated with 'Conspiracist View of the World'

Morning Briefing: The writings of the White Supremacist mass shooter behind the racist attack at the Tops Friendly Markets supermarket in Buffalo, New York were “derived from hate content he consumed online,” according to a study published by Montclair State University.

The study found that the at least 82% of so-called manifesto was plagiarized, and that “56% was taken from manifestos of other white nationalist attackers.”

Antisemitic attitudes are most strongly associated with a “conspiracist view of the world, a desire to overturn the social order, and a preference for authoritarian forms of government,” according to a study published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.

New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin and the Division on Civil Rights (DCR) published a report which “analyzes the rise in white supremacist recruitment and violence and the painful and profound impact that white supremacy has on targeted communities, especially on young people.”

In Montgomery County, Maryland, an electronic traffic sign in “construction zone was apparently hacked to display a racist message.” This is similar to another incident of hacking interstate sign in Alabama.

Canadian prosecutors recommended that Gabriel Sohier Chaput, an infamous neo-Nazi propagandist who was found guilty of willfully promoting hatred, should “serve three months of jail time with two years of probation,” however, Judge Manlio Del Negro responded that the sentencing recommendation “trivializes the crime.”

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Extremists Links: Far Right Groups Target LGBTIQ Events

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Morning Briefing: Far Right Prepares for Trump's Appearance at Miami Courthouse

Morning Briefing: Supporters of former president Donald Trump are planning mass protests at the Wilkie D. Ferguson U.S. Courthouse in Miami, Florida, and researchers have reportedly “identified individual users who are threatening violence against Trump’s perceived enemies and at least one who has explicitly said they are planning on attending with guns.”

At least two GOP members of Congress “used alarmingly warlike rhetoric in response to the federal charges filed against Donald Trump,” including Rep. Clay Higgins and Rep. Andy Biggs.

The calls to action and threats have been “amplified on right-wing media sites and have been met by supportive responses from social media users and cheers from crowds, who have become conditioned over several years by Mr. Trump and his allies to see any efforts to hold him accountable as assaults against him.”

Data from social media platforms reveal that “references to ‘civil war’ more than doubled on alternative social media platforms frequented by the American far right the very day that Trump posted on Truth Social about the indictment,” according to an analysis by the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE).

During the past few days, prominent and influential members of the far right and right-wing media have called for mass protests at the federal courthouse in Miami in support of the former president.

Wayne Allyn Root, the far right pundit and conspiracy theorist, wrote at World Net Daily that the “Democrats in power and the people who run our government are evil. Demonic. Satanic,” and add that “this is war. This is life or death. This is the end of America if we don't fight fire with fire.”

Ali Alexander, the far right activist, wrote on Telegram that “if we don't have LAW, we shouldn't give them ORDER.” Alexander also wrote that if “Republicans do not do something unprecedent, we’ll all hang,” and added that “everyone should see Members of Congress sweating in the heat with ordinary supporters.”

Laura Loomer, the far right conspiracy theories and failed Florida Congressional candidate, promoted the protest at the federal courthouse on the InfoWars program War Room with Owen Shroyer, and Kari Lake, the 2020 election denier and failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate, promoted her plans to attend the protest on Steve Bannon’s War Room.

While it has been reported that the Proud Boys, the far right violent extremist street gang, publicly displayed “apathy towards Trump’s legal woes sets them apart from the wider far-right extremism world,” the Miami chapter of the Proud Boys promoted the Loomer’s protest in their Telegram channel.

The violent rhetoric of the far right is “echoing among some Donald Trump sympathizers ahead of the former president’s appearance in a Miami court,” and both federal and local law enforcement “assigned to domestic terrorism squads are actively working to identify any possible threats.”

Advisors of the former president are reportedly “quietly expressing some concern that the pro-Trump protesters already assembling in front of the courthouse aren’t helping the former president’s case,” and one advisor predicted there is “going to be a disaster” and there will be people who “don’t want to be peaceful.”

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Extremists Links: LGBTIQ Community Celebrates Pride Month Despite Threats of Far Right Extremist Violence

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Interesting to call this “confiscating” when it’s just making the rich pay their fair share, especially considering all the stolen wealth from the bottom 99% and historic tax evasion.

Morning Briefing: Proud Boys Planning Disruptive Protest During Pride Month

The Proud Boys, the far right violent extremist street gang, are planning disruptive protests during the 'target rich environment' of Pride month celebrations.

Morning Briefing: The Proud Boys, the far right violent extremist street gang, “are now more active than ever, and are busy planning disruptive protests at Pride month celebrations across the country in June.”

The Ohio chapter of the group has reported called the upcoming month of LGBTIQ events a “target rich environment.”

The Countering Extremism Working Group was formed to combat extremism within the ranks of the U.S. military, however, two years since the establishment of the working group “the effort has vanished virtually without a trace.”

Shane Lamond, a Lieutenant and the head of an intelligence unit within the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., “faces criminal charges after allegedly warning the leader of the far-right Proud Boys group about an arrest warrant and leaking other law enforcement information.”

The New Hampshire attorney general’s office met with Task Force Butler, an organization of military veterans that recent published a report on the activities of a neo-Nazi group throughout New England, and “state officials encouraged the veterans group and others to report hate crimes to their office.”

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Extremists Links: Neo-Nazi White Supremacist Terrorism Attacks in Texas and Serbia

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Morning Briefing: White Supremacists Neo-Nazi Mass Shooter Fantasized About 'Noble War'

The White Supremacist Neo-Nazi who killed 8 people in Allen, Texas left an online footprint full of evidence of extremist ideological beliefs including White Supremacy, antisemitism, and xenophobia.

Morning Briefing: A White Supremacist neo-Nazi allegedly shot and killed 8 people at an outlet mall in Allen, Texas, and the shooter, who was reportedly shot and killed by local law enforcement, had “multiple weapons on him and five additional guns in his car nearby.”

Analysis of the shooter’s online activities and extremist ideological views, including White Supremacy, antisemitism, xenophobia, misogyny, and anti-LBGTIQ rhetoric, “played a role in his decision to carry out this horrific mass attack.”

In social media posts online, the shooter made “to reference ‘the noble war,’ a phrase that many white supremacists use to describe their belief in an impending race war.”

Details about the shooter continue to be reported, including that he reportedly joined the U.S. Army in 2008 before being discharged for an “unspecified mental health issue.”

The shooter reportedly “maintained a profile on the Russian social networking platform OK.ru, including posts referring to extremist online forums, such as 4chan, and content from white nationalists, including Nick Fuentes, an antisemitic white nationalist provocateur.”

This is not the “first American to use Russian social media sites or obscure online platforms to connect with fellow extremists around pro-Russia narratives.”

Prior to the deadly attack, the shooter reportedly “posted photographs of the shopping center three weeks before the attack on a social media account where he fantasized about race wars and the collapse of society.”

The shooter reportedly wore a tactical vest with a “RWDS” patch on it, which “stands for ‘Right Wing Death Squad,’ is a popular insignia among white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and paramilitarists.”

The patch worn by the shooter appears to be identical to a patch sold by Anime Tobacco & Firearms, an online store that sold various types of sticker and patches associate with far right memes. The online store is currently offline, and associated Twitter and Facebook account have been deleted.

An anti-fascist researcher has apparently identified the individual behind the online store, and documented their online activities and promotion of White Supremacy and neo-Nazi content. Radical Reports has not independently confirmed the identity of the owner of the online store.

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When the Apostle Paul wrote his letter to the Christians in Rome, he probably had no idea that one small section of it, Romans 13:1-5, would become the go-to biblical passage for right-wing politicians in the distant land of Texas in 2000 years or so.

But in recent months, conservative politicians have dusted off this passage for a mind-boggling range of purposes: fending off criticism, complaining about undocumented immigrants, even attacking the current Texas House speaker, Joe Straus. And some of these uses — or perhaps misuses — might surprise the apostle himself.

Hunt County Sheriff Randy Meeks drew national attention last year when he declared that law enforcement officers’ authority comes from God, and that if Black Lives Matter protesters don’t like that unassailable fact, they need to consult the Bible. Specifically? The book of Romans. Chapter 13.

“Imagine a version of the contemporary web laid out before us, like Gibson’s cyberspace or Stephenson’s Metaverse. Picture an endless plateau, planed flat, with aloof skyscrapers: a gleaming city in draft, a Dubai dispersed. That giant #1 on the horizon is YouTube, that tower of shipping boxes, Amazon. Smaller structures suggest modest websites: businesses, blogs, and more. The buildings roll away, as regular as dominoes, around the horizon. Occasional fissures, venting steam, allude to the catacombs of the dark web.

In this vision, your browser is a pod. You punch in coordinates and zip around at light-speed, passing smoothly through other browsers, whose hulls turn transparent at your approach, as in the Metaverse. Hyperlinks are wormholes: tunnels of swirling light.

One wormhole wings your pod across a digital Atlantic and deposits you in front of a quaint green building on the banks of a pixelated river. Other quaint buildings surround it but are spaced apart to accommodate pods. (It’s as if someone clicked on the edge of a city and dragged it, distending space itself.) You are now at the online shop for Shakespeare and Company, on the banks of the Seine in Paris. It’s never closed, and the door is decoration: you float cleanly through it.”

As social media becomes an increasingly fraught landscape, Jason Guriel’s ode to the bookstore reminds us of an older form of browsing—one rooted in a sense of place. “I Remember the Bookstore” is an excerpt from Jason’s new book On Browsing, which will be published on November 15, 2022, by Biblioasis Publishing.